Former Australian captain Michael Clarke has named India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand as the semifinalists of T20 World Cup. Clarke backed Australia and India to meet in the final and reckons the latter will be the favorites for the tournament as they are currently the best T20I team in the world.

India have been in red-hot form as they recently won the T20I series against New Zealand by 4-1. Suryakumar Yadav’s team has suffered only four losses since the start of 2025 and have been a force to reckon with. 

On the other hand, South Africa recently registered a 2-1 series win against the West Indies. Australia, however, suffered a 3-0 series loss against Pakistan but didn’t play with their full strength team.

Michael Clarke said via RevSportz, “Australia and India I’m still picking for the final, of course. You know, Australia’s emotional connection – I always want to see them in the final. India are the favourite, in my opinion. I think they’re the best T20 cricket team right now.”

Meanwhile, Clarke said England have a lot of distractions at the moment and said Ben Stokes’ team was terrible in the Ashes.

“I’d like to see England cricket turn things around. They were terrible in the Ashes. I was really disappointed. But I hope things turn around, at least for Brendon McCullum’s sake. I think that would certainly get a lot of the media off his back. But unfortunately, there are a lot of distractions at the moment in that England team, and I don’t think they’ll qualify for the top four. I hope I’m wrong,” said Clarke (via the aforementioned source).

England are drawn in Group C along with Italy, West Indies, Nepal and Scotland.